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the people used to iii'intite. Slie uloiic was saved. Pier luinie was 

 YeL'ukxMna'nj^. Tlien I)jila'(]()ns eaiue from out of the water. She 

 took her staff, beat time with it, and sang- a mournino- song-. She 

 found the young girl, who became the mother of the Di'eguaLlanas. 



This is one of the most important Haida family stories, Djila'qons being consid- 

 ered the ancestress, or at all events special patroness, of all those of the Eagle clan, 

 while from Sounding-property, the sole survivor of the town of DjFgua, were 

 descended the following four great groups of Eagles: Those-born-at-Skedans and 

 the Town-of-Dji'gua-people of Old Kloo, the Witch people of Cumshewa, and the 

 Sealion town people of Kaisun. Besides these several claim to have branched off 

 from the above, and the LiVna tc!a'adAS claim her as their ancestress because a man 

 of their family took her over to the Tsimshian. They are not, of course, regularly 

 entitled to the distinction. 



A version of this story obtained by myself was printed in the Memoirs of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, V, part i, 

 pages 94-96, and another was printed by Professor Boas in his Indiauische Sagen von 

 der Nord-Pacifischen Kiiste Amerikas, Berlin, 1895, pp. 310, 311. My story-teller 

 gave the following a.s one of the crying songs used by Djila''qons at this time: 

 Wa a ha A g.ada^g.a-tina'-i+heye, etc., the whole being accompanied by weeping, 

 sobbing, and the labored breathing that accompanies. The two words mean 

 "those who were going to have property," the thought being "Oh! those that 

 would have had property if I had let them alone!" 



